How's That For Irony?

It was beginning to look like, given the hemming and the hawing, the insults to league and to fans, followed by furious backpedalling, that Kevin Payne was going to drop the ball and hand Tommy the keys to season #4. But then a curious thing happened on the way to a static offseason. Soehn, who had been making increasingly erratic decisions with regards to tactics, lineups, and substitutions, stepped up and made the right one when nobody else in the organization seemed to have the balls to.

Kudos, Tommy, for getting it right in the end and knowing when to step down.

Now for the questions...

How long till Soehn is announced as Nowak's assistant in Philly?

Does Ashton take one for the team as well? Kasper? Payne?

Do the strange ongoing offseason workouts go ahead as planned? If so, what say we let Benny and Jaime take charge as a trial run for joining the coaching staff next year?

...and, of course it's time to...

Start compiling the short list of candidates.

Who's at the top of your list? Not an easy question to answer as you survey the field...

The DCU affiliation thing seems more of a distraction to me. Why not go for the best potential coach, period? Preki probably plays too negative for Kevin Payne's liking, and Cirovski would be crazy to give up his job at Maryland. Spencer could be a very attractive candidate. Of course, assistants don't always make the best head coaches . . . .

From the comments we've seen already this offseason, Kasper and Payne aren't going anywhere.

I'm with you guys on being less than enthused with the short list so far also. The most convincing arguments I've heard have been in favor of Richie Williams, and I could see that working, but I'm still holding out hope that some amazing coach that none of us have heard of will come out of nowhere and bring us back to the promised land. What would the head coach version of a MIVDUN be called?